WRITING

My work has been published in the Santa Fe Writers Project, McSweeney's, Communication Arts, Paper, Cultural Studies, The Rumpus, Your Impossible Voice, Seattle Weekly, and elsewhere. I am currently working on a novel and a collection of essays about animals and technology. 

academic

Smith, Nancy. “Data Quilts: Exploring Environmental Data Through Textile Art,” in Our Environment (Vol 2), Data Science by Design, May 2023.

Smith, Nancy. “Smart Bee Houses: Designing to Support Urban Pollination” in ACI ‘21 Proceedings of the 8th Annual ACM Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction. ACM, 2021.

Ertl, Tanja, Konstantin Aal, Franziska Tachtler, Laura Scheepmaker, Nancy Smith, Douglas Schuler, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Volker Wulf, and Claudia Müller. “Ethical Future Environments: Smart Thinking about Smart Cities Means Engaging with its Most Vulnerable” in The 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies, 2021.

Qaurooni, Danial and Nancy Smith. “Grounded Speculations: A Method, a Case Study, and Some Questions” Extended Abstract in Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2021.

Smith, Nancy and Danial Qaurooni. “The Inclusion Zone: Grounded Speculations in Chernobyl” in Proceedings of the ‘20 Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference. ACM, 2020. 

Smith, Nancy, Shaowen Bardzell, and Jeffrey Bardzell. “Designing for Cohabitation: Naturecultures, Hybrids, and Decentering the Human in Design” in Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. 2017.

Miles, Christopher and Nancy Smith. “What Grows in Silicon Valley? The Emerging Ideology of Food Technology” in The Ecopolitics of Consumption. Eds. H. Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, and Madhudaya Sinha. Lexington Books, 2015.

SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS

Smith, Nancy. Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene, by Lesley Head in Ikhtilaf, Journal of
Critical Humanities and Social Studies, December 2017.

Smith, Nancy. The Lonely City by Olivia Laing in Your Impossible Voice, April 2016.

Smith, Nancy. “Cultivating the Technological Imagination” (Anne Basalmo’s Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work) in Cultural Studies. Vol 29, Issue 5-6. 2015.

Smith, Nancy. Scrapper by Matt Bell in Your Impossible Voice, November 2015.

Smith, Nancy. Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli in Your Impossible Voice, July 2014.

Smith, Nancy. Mirror Gazing by Warren Motte in Your Impossible Voice, April 2014.

Smith, Nancy. This Is Between Us by Kevin Sampsell in Your Impossible Voice, November 2013.

Smith, Nancy. We The Animals by Justin Torres in The Rumpus, October 2011.

Smith, Nancy. Tom Waits on Tom Waits in The Rumpus, September 2011.

FICTION & POETRY

Smith, Nancy. “Bananas” in Invisible City, 2020.

Smith, Nancy. “Nightfall” republished in SFWP Annual, Vol 1 Selections from the SFWP Quarterly. Edited by Melanie Cordova, Santa Fe Writers Project, October 2017.

Smith, Nancy. “Goodnight, Wolf Girl” in Compose, October 2016.

Smith, Nancy. “Nightfall” in Santa Fe Writers Project, October 2016.

Smith, Nancy. “Reverse Commuters” in Clipped, January 2012.

Smith, Nancy. “Bruised Los Angeles” in Dial, November 2008.

Smith, Nancy. “Colorado Rust” in Adbusters, October 2006.

SELECTED ESSAYS

Smith, Nancy. “The Rumpus Interview with Anthony Doerr” in The Rumpus, May 2014.

Smith, Nancy. “The Rumpus Interview with Adam Ross” in The Rumpus, September 2012.

Smith, Nancy. “The Rumpus Interview with Colson Whitehead” in The Rumpus, July 2012.

Smith, Nancy. “Radio Ambulante: This Latin American Life” in The Rumpus, June 2012.

Smith, Nancy. “The Rumpus Interview with Tupelo Hassman” in The Rumpus, May 2012.

Smith, Nancy. “The Rumpus Interview with Justin Torres” in The Rumpus, October 2011.

Smith, Nancy. “The Rumpus Interview with Aimee Bender” in The Rumpus, April 2011.

Smith, Nancy. “No One Can Take a Bath For You: Why I Write” in The Rumpus, June 2011.

Smith, Nancy. “Mural Design and Community Education with Susan Cervantes” in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, December 2010.

Smith, Nancy. “Last Book I Loved: Willful Creatures” in The Rumpus, March 2010.